On Thu, 16 Jun 2011, Mike Williams wrote: > On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 7:05 PM, Michael Hennebry > <hennebry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Thu, 16 Jun 2011, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >> >>> On Thu, 2011-06-16 at 12:11 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote: >>>> Alas still no go. >>>> Now it asks me for a password, but it won't take it. > > You probably have something set wrong on your end. Double check the > server names, ports, and authentication. The question is what? The server names I cut and pasted. The port numbers are right. The options for authenticationn are password and things I'd never heard or read about. For the masochists, the data from which I am working is here: http://www.ndsu.edu/its/help/index/mobile_devices/configuration/ I finally managed to read the "error box" from when clicked on "Check for supported types": "Querying server for list of suported authentication mechanisms." I had to do a lot of fast clicking. > If you can't get Evolution to play, try Thunderbird. With either > program, you will have to enter your password at least once and you Is there a reason to expect Thunderbird to do better? I have mmajor difficulties putting much effort into something I expect not to work. > At my school we switched to microsoft for email a while ago and there > are two ways that I know of that work. > > The approach I took, since I do not care for outlook and I like gmail, > was to use the web access to login to my email MS account and setup > forwarding, so that all of my school email gets forwarded to my gmail I've considered similar, but there are two problems: The documentation seems to imply that if I do that, I will lose the mail already in my inbox. The described mechanism seems not to bethere. > If you don't want use gmail then Thunderbird will work. A professor Gawd I hope so. > that I work for uses Thunderbird on his home system and it works fine. > As was mentioned in the discussion about Evolution you have to make > sure you check the box for TLS and get the server settings right. > > One nice thing about using Thunderbird is that your messages get > downloaded to your system so you can still get to the downloaded I'd thought that all e-mail clients had that as an option. No? > Good luck, -- Michael hennebry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx "Pessimist: The glass is half empty. Optimist: The glass is half full. Engineer: The glass is twice as big as it needs to be." -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
